HTML5 gives us power beyond what we’ve had before through native APIs in the browser delivering rich media, realtime effects and communication. In this course, you’ll get hands-on examples of building your own media players on top of HTML5 APIs. You’ll dive into camera support with getUserMedia, WebRTC for realtime communication, video effects with canvas, and get introduced to the Web Audio API for low-level audio support.
Author Name: Mark Boas
Author Description:
Although based in Italy, Mark Boas makes up half of the Scottish company Happyworm – his role there is to play about with web based media. He also coordinates the development of jPlayer – an open source JS media library and helps companies such as Al Jazeera, the BBC and WNYC do new things on the web. As a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow, 2012 was spent working closely with global news organizations. Mark has run courses for the W3C, Al Jazeera and is currently coaching students at the Universit… more

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  12mins
• Audio and Video Basics
  38mins
• Tools and Configuration
  11mins
• Introduction to the Media API
  24mins
• Buffering, Seeking, Preloading, and the User Experience
  37mins
• Subtitles and Playback Rate
  34mins
• Canvas and WebGL
  45mins
• WebRTC
  41mins
• Advanced Audio
  25mins
• Wrap-Up
  37mins